I personally do not prefer the "bubbly" theme introduced in recent versions of Fedora and am not immediately fond of the artwork path the Fedora team seems to be taking. To me it seems to be departing away from the regular/old redhat-artwork team which imo is a bad thing. I liked bluecurve when it first came out and many people did, but in any way it did create A LOT of attention onto Redhat. It was a nice and professional theme and still looks pretty good today except for the use of grey and "blah" buttons.
The icon theme though is still nice and the artwork (GDm theme, splash screen etc.) shown in RHEL4 is more of the kind of stuff I would like to see instead of the "kiddish" kind of look Fedora seems to be taking on. I believe many want a professional looking distro and Redhat/Fedora was/is that and I would like if perhaps we could take some different directions in the artwork again, perhaps more in tune to what RHEL team does. I have looked at the new icon theme (Echo) and I think I like it and I even like the Bluecurve GDM theme shipped w/FC5 as well as the splash screen for GNOME. Its the bubbily/light blue theme and such that is in the new release that I do not like. Hopefully we can discuss this more.
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Steve Barnhart escribió:
I personally do not prefer the "bubbly" theme introduced in recent versions of Fedora and am not immediately fond of the artwork path the Fedora team seems to be taking. To me it seems to be departing away from the regular/old redhat-artwork team which imo is a bad thing. I liked bluecurve when it first came out and many people did, but in any way it did create A LOT of attention onto Redhat. It was a nice and professional theme and still looks pretty good today except for the use of grey and "blah" buttons.
The icon theme though is still nice and the artwork (GDm theme, splash screen etc.) shown in RHEL4 is more of the kind of stuff I would like to see instead of the "kiddish" kind of look Fedora seems to be taking on. I believe many want a professional looking distro and Redhat/Fedora was/is that and I would like if perhaps we could take some different directions in the artwork again, perhaps more in tune to what RHEL team does. I have looked at the new icon theme (Echo) and I think I like it and I even like the Bluecurve GDM theme shipped w/FC5 as well as the splash screen for GNOME. Its the bubbily/light blue theme and such that is in the new release that I do not like. Hopefully we can discuss this more.
I'm not too fond of the "bubbling" theme, however I must admit that in context it does look rather nice. I like what I've seen of Echo thus far, and to be in tune with it, I think the bubbling theme kind of interferes (IMO), I'm sure there are some good ideas on how to integrate the brand "fedora" and the logo into a default desktop/splash/GDM theme besides the bubbling presence it has today (seems like an ad for Alkazelzer or a soda IMO)
Steve Barnhart wrote:
I personally do not prefer the "bubbly" theme introduced in recent versions of Fedora and am not immediately fond of the artwork path the Fedora team seems to be taking. To me it seems to be departing away from the regular/old redhat-artwork team which imo is a bad thing. I liked bluecurve when it first came out and many people did, but in any way it did create A LOT of attention onto Redhat. It was a nice and professional theme and still looks pretty good today except for the use of grey and "blah" buttons.
The icon theme though is still nice and the artwork (GDm theme, splash screen etc.) shown in RHEL4 is more of the kind of stuff I would like to see instead of the "kiddish" kind of look Fedora seems to be taking on. I believe many want a professional looking distro and Redhat/Fedora was/is that and I would like if perhaps we could take some different directions in the artwork again, perhaps more in tune to what RHEL team does. I have looked at the new icon theme (Echo) and I think I like it and I even like the Bluecurve GDM theme shipped w/FC5 as well as the splash screen for GNOME. Its the bubbily/light blue theme and such that is in the new release that I do not like. Hopefully we can discuss this more.
Amen to that, I like the old themes in FC4, FC3, etc. Why the maintainers decided to depart from that, I have no idea.
Jeff
Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
Steve Barnhart wrote:
I personally do not prefer the "bubbly" theme introduced in recent versions of Fedora and am not immediately fond of the artwork path the Fedora team seems to be taking.
while I might understand the issue some may have of bubbly, I personally LOVE it and find it soothing and basically overall showing that fedora 'cares' maybe :)...ok that could be a stretch but I think it fits well ;)
cheers g.leej(nl)
haha fedora 'cares' lol that's funny :). On a slight other note, if they care they should not be so closed-minded when it comes to free and proprietary software and/or codecs and formats such as mp3 and the ntfs module. They could _atleast_ link to clearer documentation on how to do such things. Yes I know about the Fedora FAQ but I don't think its linked anywhere on the wiki where they discuss restricted formats. I remember reading a rant about it, wish I could remember it.
Sorry to change the topic. Back on, ya I prefer a more professional theme, something that the red hat folks would still do :). I also like parts of the DNA theme, its heading in the right direction. Maybe a couple choices would be nice instead of 1 theme/wallpaper per release
On 8/15/06, forms forms@heartseed.org wrote:
Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
Steve Barnhart wrote:
I personally do not prefer the "bubbly" theme introduced in recent versions of Fedora and am not immediately fond of the artwork path the Fedora team seems to be taking.
while I might understand the issue some may have of bubbly, I personally LOVE it and find it soothing and basically overall showing that fedora 'cares' maybe :)...ok that could be a stretch but I think it fits well ;)
cheers g.leej(nl)
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Steve Barnhart wrote:
haha fedora 'cares' lol that's funny :). On a slight other note, if they care they should not be so closed-minded when it comes to free and proprietary software and/or codecs and formats such as mp3 and the ntfs module. They could _atleast_ link to clearer documentation on how to do such things. Yes I know about the Fedora FAQ but I don't think its linked anywhere on the wiki where they discuss restricted formats. I remember reading a rant about it, wish I could remember it.
Its a matter of policy in only including and supporting Free software. Holding such ideologies is similar to being a vegetarian for example, which has nothing to do with being close minded. In many cases writing down the steps to get codecs might very well amount to contributory infringement and we cant do that. So lets not have that discusssion yet again in a art list.
Rahul
El vie, 11-08-2006 a las 17:48 -0400, Jeffrey D. Yuille escribió:
Steve Barnhart wrote:
I personally do not prefer the "bubbly" theme introduced in recent versions of Fedora and am not immediately fond of the artwork path the Fedora team seems to be taking. To me it seems to be departing away from the regular/old redhat-artwork team which imo is a bad thing. I liked bluecurve when it first came out and many people did, but in any way it did create A LOT of attention onto Redhat. It was a nice and professional theme and still looks pretty good today except for the use of grey and "blah" buttons.
The icon theme though is still nice and the artwork (GDm theme, splash screen etc.) shown in RHEL4 is more of the kind of stuff I would like to see instead of the "kiddish" kind of look Fedora seems to be taking on. I believe many want a professional looking distro and Redhat/Fedora was/is that and I would like if perhaps we could take some different directions in the artwork again, perhaps more in tune to what RHEL team does. I have looked at the new icon theme (Echo) and I think I like it and I even like the Bluecurve GDM theme shipped w/FC5 as well as the splash screen for GNOME. Its the bubbily/light blue theme and such that is in the new release that I do not like. Hopefully we can discuss this more.
Amen to that, I like the old themes in FC4, FC3, etc. Why the maintainers decided to depart from that, I have no idea.
Jeff
Amen too. At home those fc5 themes & splashes are known as fedora "champagne" :-p I also agree with that idea about its new look, it is a lot childish in my opinion, for sure proper to animate the decoration's sky in a music "festival", the walls of a kindergarten, etc... Sorry, but I've upgraded to fc5 (from fc4) recently, so maybe I am still under "shock". I wouldn't like to be disrespectful with the team in charge at all but one of the first things I did when customizing the new install was to take away the /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz file replacing it for a previous one, install gnome-themes-extra pack, change to a bluecurve theme, choose a more serious background, gnome-themes, etc... But mine it's just an single opinion -there are millions of colours, so there are millions of tastes.
Regards
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